drone missions

phthoruthphthoruth ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2021 in General

I wish we could do missions by drone.

There are travel restrictions due to covid, and I've done my nearby missions.

It would be nice to be able to do missions, even if limited just to hacks.

ps a community for missions would be nice.

Comments

  • RostwoldRostwold ✭✭✭✭✭

    I agree with @ZeroHecksGiven. I like the idea of something like missions that we could do with drones, because the current 'alternate between 2 high level portals for the best gear and most glyph points' mechanic is boring, but I don't think allowing drones (or at least the mk1 drone) into the existing mission system would work well at all, not least because missions can have larger gaps than a drone can reach, which wouldn't be much fun for agents.

  • phthoruthphthoruth ✭✭✭✭

    Creating missions for drones is my intent, since drones can only hack and have a limited range. I was planning to make missions to show good drone routes. Perhaps use them for drone races.

    We would also need a way to start them. In the drone view of a portal, the 'mission' button in the top left, could be used on the first portal. It could check for missions that have 'drone hacks', if that feature were added to mission authoring tool.

  • MonkeyPeltMonkeyPelt ✭✭✭✭

    Daaaang, missions for drone races could be really cool!!!

  • I think I’d be more okay with this if there were drone specific missions and they were displayed in their own area, separate from current missions.

    Expanding Drones in a way that is in no way 'equivalent' to what players do in person, it could work without damaging the accomplishment of normal missions.

  • phthoruthphthoruth ✭✭✭✭

    If the concern is that drones make missions too easy, the stat for unique missions could be left unchanged when doing a mission by drone. Or have a new stat for unique missions completed by drone.

    If a mission is designed for drone, but could be done in person, is that a bad thing?

    I was thinking that 'hack' would be expanded to include drone hacks, so the authoring tool doesnt require a change, just the client and/or server.

    But it was my intent to create new missions to show people interesting drone paths.

    I'm looking for more ways to play ingress safely from home, while the pandemic is on. Expanding drone functionality is one way. But we dont want them to be too powerful. Missions are mostly harmless.

  • ZeroHecksGivenZeroHecksGiven ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think a new stat would have to be included and separate. I'm also not sure if I'd want them displayed with the OG missions. Or, maybe they are mixed in and drone missions have a tiny little icon in the corner or something, so it's plainly obvious which were done in person and which were done by drone. Or just a tap on your profile switches from human to drone missions...

    I'm with you though, I think there is much room for drone use with Ingress. It's a little unfortunate it hasn't got much love from Niantic.

  • MxxMxx ✭✭✭✭

    I can't imagine what Niantic might see in this that could be abused. It's 1 freaking drone hack per hour. What's there to abuse?

    This would be such a huge quality of life improvement for people who do missions and encounter an unexpected roadblock.

  • MargariteDVilleMargariteDVille ✭✭✭✭

    The abuse would be if the drone is allowed to do more than one hack per mission, at a time when it could only make one move per hour - ruining the mission's average elapsed time. People doing it in-person in 15 minutes, would be averaged with people doing with-drones in 8 hours - and the resulting average would mean nothing.

    This could be prevented by (a) keeping it to drone-only missions, or (b) limit one drone hack per mission.

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